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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix cygwin compilation failure due to nameless LOAD_DLL_DEBUG_EVENT causes ntdll.dll to be missing
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:29:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <831u1acblu.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131218171819.GY30010@calimero.vinschen.de>

> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 18:18:19 +0100
> From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com>
> 
> On Dec 18 19:03, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2013 17:07:07 +0100
> > > > Are you sure that 32K capability cannot be had with ANSI file names
> > > > using the \\?\ notation?
> > > 
> > > Yes.  The \\?\ notation only works in the UNICODE API[*].  The reason
> > > is that the ANSI API is just a thin layer over the actual UNICODE
> > > functionality, and the conversion from ANSI to UNICODE is done using a
> > > per-thread fixed-size buffer of 520 bytes.
> > 
> > Does this mean that using \\?\ with ANSI-encoded file names buys us
> > 520-byte file names?
> 
> 260 char ANSI -> 520 bytes UTF-16

Oh, I misunderstood then.

So lifting the 260-char limit means both go to Unicode _and_ use the
\\?\ format of file names, is that right?  If so, it probably means
that CRT functions that accept wchar_t arrays as file names (_wfopen
etc.) cannot be used with such long file names, and one needs to call
the Win32 APIs directly.  Correct?


  reply	other threads:[~2013-12-18 17:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <52ab8d0e.8aa2420a.30ff.ffffd8f1SMTPIN_ADDED_BROKEN@mx.google.com>
2013-12-16 17:13 ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-16 22:50   ` Pierre Muller
2013-12-18 11:20   ` Corinna Vinschen
     [not found]     ` <83bo0ecgdw.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-12-18 16:07       ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-12-18 17:03         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-18 17:18           ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-12-18 17:29             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-12-18 17:31               ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-12-18 18:19                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-18 19:18                   ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-12-18 20:01                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-18 20:54                       ` Corinna Vinschen
2013-12-19 18:33                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-28  3:17                           ` Joel Brobecker
2013-12-28  9:02                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-12-13 22:41 Pierre Muller
2013-12-16  2:21 ` Yao Qi
2013-12-16 18:05   ` Pedro Alves
2013-12-17  0:43     ` Yao Qi
2013-12-17  8:43       ` Pierre Muller
2013-12-18  3:37 ` Yao Qi

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